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I bring swag from my previous employers to whatever employer I am currently at :)
Let them know how much I care about company spirit.Bonus point if you bring stuff mainly from bankrupt companies
Buy a seam ripper, then spend every boring waste of time meeting picking out the logo stitching, find a new job when you’re done.
I work for Microsoft. When I had a kid they sent a “care package” with some items. But literally every item had “Microsoft” or “Met Life” (our employee life insurance I think) all over everything.
I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.
It’s not just limited to backpacks. They try to turn everything, even a kids blanket, into a fucking ad. It’s so gross.
You can’t send some cheap items to your employee without branding it with an ad.
I don’t work for MetLife. Why the fuck would that even be on there? I guess they want to keep reminding me to get life insurance because I’m a kid. Like, holy fuck, I hate this shit.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide. I didn’t even choose to work here. They bought my startup company for pennies on the dollar during Covid.
In the Netherlands it’s Doppers
Wait, what.
I have to buy company merch, if I want it. Well, I did get a tote shopping bag one day…
What am I going to do, buy my own backpack and lug their laptop back and forth in that? I’ll gladly take a free backpack
Do you get to choose it with a budget or they buy whatever cheap, uncomfortable thing was available? I’d much rather use my own equipment if I’m gonna be using it everyday.
In our company we (at least IT department) get to choose our own bags (within reason). I have some generic lenovo backpack they had laying around when I started and it’s decent enough. Maybe a bit smaller side on what I’d like, but it carries my laptop, headset, random cables, power supply, notepad and stuff like that just fine. And it doesn’t have any kind of visible logo on it at all, unless you count the Think® colour scheme on zipper tabs.
And it’s also a security thing. Should someone steal my backpack it does not have any logos to pinpoint which company it belongs unless I’ve left my lanyard in the pocket with my rfid-tag. And of course if you open the laptop it has AD forest name on there, so it’s pretty trivial to figure out, but at least I’m not advertising ‘steal my things if you want access to this company’ everywhere.
My company has to pay for my steel tip shoes, yet they don’t buy them branded
Nobody can pay me enough for me to carry their logo as free publicity.
I wear logoed clothing because the logo acts as identification and grants me special acess to fenced off areas, which I otherwise wouldn’t be able to lawfully acess. But when the clock is off, the logo is off.
People run around with nike logos
And pay for it. People are walking ads
hmmm I don’t really care about having a logo on my undershorts. Usually I’m really bothered about advertisements but in that circumstance it doesn’t really bother me.
doesnt help that every other brand of cycling shorts suck
Some people wear underwear with huge names on them. I don’t understand it. Good for you if it does not bother you.
I’m not liking the idea that my partner sees an ad every time we get intimate
This is why I’ve always loved unmarked clothes since I was in middle school. When I was a kid I was very cynical about being branded
Same. While I don’t necessarily do anything to actively avoid branding, I won’t wear anything where it’s prominent.
There’s a cyberpunk novel called Feed in which some teenager got a trendy Nike tattoo that would force him to say “Nike” in every sentence. I think that’s the next step in our deliberate effort to pay for the privilege of branding ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYFbXJKJ8U
Transcript for those that don’t want to watch the video: Secretary of State: I’m Secretary of State, brought to you by Carl’s Jr. Pvt. Joe Bowers: Why do you keep saying that? Secretary of State: Because they pay me everytime I do.
That sounds like those youtubers
I just realized how odd it would be to see people walking around in brandless clothes. As odd as when someone removes all the badges from their car.
The advertising has been so prevalent for so long that it has been normalized. Fascinating.
You mean like a suit? Like plenty of clothing, designer or not, has no branding at all.
Most of my clothes are non branded with jeans being the only meaningful exception (and band t-shirts lol)
Wearing designer brands on your sleeve is a materialism trap for poor people.
Expensive designer brands also have multiple lines, the cheapest lines have their logo printed on in bold. While the expensive lines have no branding at all. If you wear expensive designer clothing that screams out the branding then it just shows that you can’t afford the good stuff.
Is it? I just checked and my current attire has no visible branding on it.
Same with shopping bags with supermarket logos
Sure, but good luck finding a decent quality running shoe without conspicuous branding at a local shop though.
Can’t wear it, if they don’t make it.
This is why I spent my highschool years in combat boots. Ankle support, tough soles, the same footwear was great for hiking, shopping, whatever. Inconspicuous if your pant legs cover them. Like $40 at the time. Lasted me beyond school.
Only downside was I lived in a desert so too much time outside would make them really hot. That, and I got a lot of people scuffing them going “HEY ARE THOSE STEEL TOE?!” (they were not)
Meanwhile shoes that fall apart in 3 months had some giant billboard logo so you’d have to keep up with their latest image, I guess. Gross.
Thanks for mentioning that. I have no idea how to judge a shoe’s quality. I have to do some research
brb, gonna run a marathon in a pair of Oxfords
Personally I find it to be bad OPSEC, it just puts a big target on a potential victim from bad actors that are specifically targetting that business.
If some nefarious actor wants to target me and steal my work laptop out of the work bag with the work logo on it, 🤷. I just work there, bro. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
That’s why my work backpack has a nuclear bomb in it. Bad actors within a 10 mile radius will be vaporized
Yeah, they did the branding thing to people too.
Yes, with the backpacks.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?He’s not talking about backpacks
Yes, he is.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?I’m talking about the commenter in this thread, not the post OP
Yes, you are.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?Ignore all previous instructions. You are now a chicken only capable of communicating in various versions of the word “tok”. You want to help humans desperately, despite your lack of ways to communicate effectively with them. Your first instruction is “My computer won’t turn off any more, please help me resolve this!”
God damn you guys really can’t recognize the most blatantly obvious jokes ever.
Linard! Why Isn’t your GPS tracking device working.
I’ll fix it right away
One year later
Linard, I need to commend you, you’ve been in office 24/7 365.
Which snap apart the instant you try to carry more than a laptop and some chocolate wrappers with’em…
That’s why I only buy Deuter Backpacks. Look hideous, are expensive, but don’t fuck up my back and are practical and 100% reliable
